Epidemiological surveillance of cystic echinococcosis in dogs, sheep farms and humans in the Rio Negro Province;Vigilancia epidemiológica de la equinococcosis quística en perros, establecimientos ganaderos y poblaciones humanas en la provincia de Río Negro

Medicina

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 193-200

  Perez, Alicia ^a   Costa, Maria T ^a   Cantoni, Gustavo ^a   Mancini, Sergio ^a   Mercapide, Carlos ^a   Herrero, Eduardo ^a   Volpe, Marcela ^a   Araya, Daniel ^a   Talmon, Gabriel ^a   Chiosso, Carlos ^a   Vázquez, Gabriela ^a   Del Carpio, Mario ^a   Santillan, Graciela ^b   Larrieu, Edmundo ^a,c  

^a Ministerio de Salud ^*  (Argentina)

^b Instituto Nacional de Microbiologia   (Spain)

^c Universidad Nacional de La Pampa   (Spain)

Author keywords

Arecoline; Coproantigen; Echinococcosis; Epidemiology surveillance; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ARECOLINE;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; DOG DISEASE; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FECES ANALYSIS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVESTOCK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZATION; SCREENING TEST; SEROLOGY; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE; SYMPTOM; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; ARECOLINE; ARGENTINA; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHILD; CHOLINERGIC AGONISTS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FECES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; PARASITE EGG COUNT; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; ZOONOSES;

EID: 33746131704     PISSN: 00257680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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